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Letter from Frederick Greenwood, Ffestiniog, Wales, to Kate Greenwood, 1881 October : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
447989
Accession number
MA 14549.64
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
Ffestiniog, Wales, 1881 October
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Dated "Saturday"; inscribed with a suggested date of "October 3, 1881" by former owner; however, it should be noted that October 3rd fell on a Monday of that year.
Forms part of a collection of letters by English journalist, author, and editor, Frederick Greenwood (1830-1909), and other members of the Greenwood family.
Inscriptions/Markings
With marks and annotations by former owner in pencil.
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of J.W. Robertson Scott; bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of a "tax notice" which he expects he will have to pay; informing her that he will be home on Monday, and noting that he will be glad to return "on account of the paper, wh. for the last three weeks has been hideously pointless, spiritless, & dull."